Others, worn out and emaciated, and bearing the brand of the German army, had been mercifully destroyed; but the greater number of them were the farm horses of peasants, still wearing their head-stalls or the harness of the plough.

That they might not aid the enemy as remounts, the Germans in their retreat had shot them.

I saw four and five together in the yards of stables, the bullet-hole of an automatic in the head of each.

Others lay beside the market cart, others by the canal, where they had sought water.
Less pitiful, but still evidencing the wastefulness of war, were the motor-trucks, and automobiles that in the flight had been abandoned.
For twenty miles these automobiles were scattered along the road.
There were so many one stopped counting them.

Added to their loss were two shattered German airships.